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One of the guards opened a door on the lowest deck They entered a large space where ten other uards, while four of them, dressed in technicians’ overalls, were huddled around what looked like a torpedo Athe operations

Ferreira waved the man over to him “Mr González, Mr Chen, this is Roberto Espinoza He’s been a key player in the Slipstream Project”

When they shook hands, Juan looked at him coolly The man’s five-o’clock shadoas expertly detailed, and his slicked-back hair made him look like an extra fro dealer if he didn’t know that Espinoza was actually Luis Machado, the coent

“Nice to meet you, Mr Espinoza,” Juan said for the benefit of the rest of his extraction tea said via a ed at the back of Juan’s teeth The responses from the other end were sent to his ears via bone conduction, whichfrom inside his head

“Now, can we see the equipment?” Eddie asked “We have other plans after this”

“I hope you aren’t planning to go anywhere near Maracanã Stadiuhtmare when the Peru–Mexico match is over”

With tourists strea in from all over the continent for the Copa A organizations to get together andundue attention

Juan shook his head “Our nextforward to seeing Colombia take on Brazil tomorrow”

Ferreira grinned “I hope you won’t hold it against me if your team loses”

“Not if you can solve our shipping problems”

“That I can do The Slipstream can evade any detection equipuarantee you won’t lose another shipestured to the technicians “Step aside so they can see it”

The technicians complied and stood back from the object Juan and Eddie had come to see

It wasn’t a torpedo, though it was shaped like one and was approxi Its top was split down thea watertight storage area

Juan did a quick mental calculation Based on the volume and the current street value of pure cocaine, it could hold over a hundred million dollars’ worth of product

Ferreira walked over to it proudly “The Slipstrea, my friends A totally reusable, undetectable submersible drone”